Charles Reagan Wilson

Charles
Reagan Wilson

Charles Reagan Wilson is
the director of the Center
for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
in Oxford. A professor of history and Southern studies, he earned
his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Texas in El Paso and his
Ph.D. at the University of Texas in Austin. His books on Southern
religious and cultural history include Judgment and Grace in
Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (1995) and Baptized
in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1868-1920 (1980).
In addition, he edited The New Regionalism (1997) and Religion
in the South (1985), and co-edited Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture (1989) and Religion and the American Civil War
(1998).

(Article first
posted February 2002)

Publications

Nonfiction:

Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1868-1920.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner
to Elvis. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Other Books:

Religion in the South: Essays. Papers presented
at the Porter L. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History
at the University of Mississippi, 3-5 October 1984. Edited by Charles
Reagan Wilson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles
Reagan Wilson and William
Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL.
By Hunter James, foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson. Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1993.

Picturing The South: 1860 to the Present: Photographers
and Writers. Exhibition held at the High Museum of Art,
Folk Art and Photography Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15-September
14, 1996. Edited by Ellen Dugan, essay by Charles Reagan Wilson.
Atlanta, Ga.: High Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books,
1996.

The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries. Edited
by Charles Reagan Wilson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1998.

The South and the Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries.
Papers from the 22nd Annual Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, Jr., Symposium
on Southern History, held in Oxford, Mississippi in October 1996.
Edited by Douglass Sullivan-González and Charles Reagan Wilson.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.